Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.

- Jill Lepore

Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?

- Phil Klay

We have to be as militant defending America as the enemies of America are in trying to destroy America.

- Newt Gingrich

You never look silly when you're defending the American people and their pocketbook.

- Marsha Blackburn

Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

- La India

Everyone has different ways of defending themselves.

- Luis Suarez

Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?

- Judy Woodruff

We have created thousands and thousands of places in America that aren't worth caring about, and when we have enough of them, we're going to have a country that's not worth defending.

- James Howard Kunstler

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

- Jock Sturges

English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.

- Jim Crace

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

- Boris Yeltsin

This way of life is worth defending.

- George W. Bush

I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes.

- George W. Bush

In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.

- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly.

- Dave Sim

I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.

- Dana Plato

I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am. What you see is what you get.

- Dana Plato

As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly believe in, but I can also attest to the trauma encountered from combat on the battlefield.

- Charles B. Rangel

Hillary Clinton lies about Benghazi, she lied about emails, she is still defending Planned Parenthood, and she is still her party's frontrunner.

- Carly Fiorina

The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.

- Bob Barr